Orem Library

In Navajo, numerous prefixes combine with verb roots to form single words that, in English translation, require a phrase or even a sentence to convey their meaning. Therefore, verb stems and prefixes must be mastered piece by piece to understand the language. This volume leads the reader carefully and systematically through the complexities of the Navajo verb system. By doing so, the book makes Navajo more accessible to all those interested in the...

When a boy moves from his pony, Little Black, to a larger horse, Big Red, the pony misses his master and is upset that he can no longer serve him, until the boy gets into danger that only Little Black can get him out of. Re-illustrated with Navajo characters.

Presents Navajo language instruction; covers vocabulary and structures, including present, past, and future verb tenses, related to areas of Navajo life and culture such as weaving, animal husbandry, tribal government, and planting.

Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did the use of Navajo code talkers using their tribal language to transmit military communiques. Countless American lives were saved because of the service of these brave young Native American Marines.

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.